Today you are going to see those mobile games list which collect money from esports tournament, you can also earn money by participating in these tournaments.
Fortnite
“How could I possibly compete with PC players?” I hear you cry - but don’t worry the developers of Fortnite, Epic Games have recently begun hosting platform specific tournaments with the most recent Winter Royale handing out over $3,000,000 to mobile players across the world.
Many of the game’s best mobile players play on iPads which in a recent update can now play the game at 120fps - something which the Xbox and PlayStation struggle to.
Okay, it doesn’t look as great as it’s PC and console versions but then you are playing on a device as thick as… well, your phone.
And if you still want to go up against the very best Fortnite players you can - the various Fortnite tournaments from the FNCS to the weekday Cash Cups are open to all platforms and the very best on mobile have been known to place in the money.
Brawl Stars
Brawl Stars is among the new games to step into esports. The MOBA has been developed by Supercell, which boasts other mobile esports titles like Clash Royale and Clash of Clans.
While the game received a large number of community tournaments since its global release last year, the first Supercell supported event—the Brawl Stars World Finals 2019—was held in November. The event attracted 93,989 viewers at its peak and had an average viewership of 28,694 people, according to Esports Charts.
For 2020, Supercell announced the Brawl Stars Championship. It’ll feature monthly online and offline events that will grant qualification points toward the World Finals, which will be held in the fall of 2020. The overall prize pool for the championship is $1 million. Fans can contribute an additional $500,000 to the growing prize pool by purchasing special in-game items, which will be revealed before the 2020 World Finals.
A year-long competition structure is ideal for a growing esport as it allows organizations to monitor the game early in the year, and then swoop in the buy up free agent contender rosters ahead of major championships where the bulk of the viewership and prize money will be concentrated. More structure, more prize money, new organizations entering the space – these are the defining characteristics of a growing esport, and Brawl Stars fits the mold perfectly.
Free Fire
While most of the headlines surrounding mobile battle royale titles have been focused on PUBG MOBILE, Garena’s entry into the genre quietly had a strong 2019 and doesn’t look to be slowing down. According to Esports Earnings, the game awarded nearly $400K USD in prize money in 2019 – virtually all of it coming from a single event, the Free Fire World Series. According to YouTube’s annual YouTube Rewind, Free Fire was also the fourth most-watched video game on the platform.
Building up from the success of the World Cup, the Free Fire World Series 2019 featured regional qualification leagues around the world. Held in Brazil last November, the tournament broke the viewership records set by the World Cup. It peaked at over two million viewers and had an average viewership of 1.2 million people.
While Garena still hasn’t announced esports plans for 2021, the Free Fire community’s passion toward esports has been made clear.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Call of Duty: Mobile may have only been released a few months ago, but it’s already become one of the biggest mobile games on the market. The game has 170 million downloads since its release.
It may be too soon to talk much about an esports scene for the game, but the number of ongoing community tournaments makes it clear that esports is something that fans want to see from the game.
Garena, which released the game in Southeast Asia, has already realized this and has been hosting tournaments. The Clan Invasion Tournament was held in Singapore and Malaysia, featuring live finals in the respective countries as well. Call of Duty: Mobile Mission One was also recently held for Thailand by Garena and featured a $6,600 prize pool.
The Call of Duty: Mobile Creator Challenge by WSOE has been the biggest tournament for the shooter in the Americas. The tournament featured notable influencers, streamers, and players from the region. It had a $30,000 prize pool and peaked at over 12,000 viewers.
Activision hasn’t announced any tournaments for the rest of the regions yet. Considering the hype and competitive nature of the first-person shooter, though, it should only be a matter of time before it does.
PUBG MOBILE
The PUBG Mobile Club Open (PMCO) 2019 was a huge success in terms of engagement and viewership. The Spring Split Global final was the most-watched event of the year for the game, peaking at 596,824 viewers and had a concurrent viewership of 221,491. Of course, carrying this momentum forward in 2020 was a no-brainer for Tencent.
On PC, battle royale esports remain a complicated challenge, largely held aloft by the overwhelming prize money infused into Fortnite by Epic Games. PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS has abandoned its regional leagues after just one year, and Apex Legends saw virtually no esports interest this year after the launch hype died down (next year’s Global Series may change that, but it remains to be seen). Mobile battle royales appear to be another story entirely.
Both Free Fire and PUBG MOBILE have shown that there is an audience interested in watching these games played at a competitive level, and Tencent has the resources to develop PUBG MOBILE into not just a powerful mobile esport, but an industry leader overall.
PUBG Mobile esports in 2020 will have ample opportunities for all with campus championships for amateur players, along with the PMCO and World League for semi-pro and professional players. The PUBG Mobile Pro League will also be launching next year in the Americas, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, ensuring year-long events for fans to look forward to.
Clash Royale
Clash Royale, that potential comes primarily from a recently-announced partnership with Turner Sports to oversee the Clash Royale League’s ad inventory. The CRL has largely operated without sponsors for its first two years, but bringing in the company that operates ELEAGUE (which has signed its fair share of non-endemic partners) should change that in a hurry.
The 2019 World Finals saw a decline of over 63 percent in peak viewers compared to the 2018 Finals. The concurrent viewership dropped by 64 percent as well. While these may be troubling numbers, a huge part of the drop in viewers could be because Supercell didn’t give out any free goodies for watching the livestream of the CRL World Finals 2019. In 2018, players earned gold, chests, and even gems just from watching the livestream, which significantly increased viewer numbers.
While viewership and prize money may not grow dramatically for the CRL , the opportunity for brands has just grown significantly, which is critical to the long-term viability of any esport in the modern era.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) is another mobile esport to watch out for. The game has been running esports competitions for over two years now in Southeast Asia, where it’s extremely popular. In 2019, however, the developer Moonton expressed desires to expand the game to newer territories.
The M1 World Championship, the first of its kind for the MOBA game, featured a $250,000 prize pool. In addition to reserved slots for Southeast Asian countries, qualifiers were also held in the U.S., Brazil, Russia, and Turkey. The M2 World Championship will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
This move comes after MLBB’s main competitor, Arena of Valor, dropped countries like the U.S. from the Arena of Valor International Championship 2019—its premium international esports event.
Expanding to new regions is a steep task for the developers with Riot Games scheduled to release League of Legends: Wild Rift for mobile in 2020, along with competition from other games such as NetEase’s Marvel Super War in which players can battle as characters from across the Marvel universe.
Moonton is ready to take on this challenge, though, since it recently released MLBB 2.0. The launch of MLBB 2.0 includes a faster loading time, a more refined UI, and a completely new map, which makes the game one of the best mobile MOBAs on the market.
League of Legends: Wild Rift
The last game on this list is League of Legends: Wild Rift. The game hasn’t been released, but Riot has promised to roll it out in 2020. Several leaks have shown gameplay footage of the game already and it’s similar to the PC version.
While it may be too early to speculate about an esports scene for the game, it’s unlikely that Riot won’t try to push it in that direction.
In a recent interview, Hideo Hikida, a producer at Riot Games, told Mais Esports that Riot would “love to see the community embrace the game and move it forward in whatever way they can.” He further added that if this means that the community wants to see esports tournaments, Riot would love to give exactly that to the players.
For now, fans have to wait until the game receives a release date before tournaments start happening.
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